capturing metadata

| By Maureen McClarnon | My last post discussed how content receives very basic metadata, and how it gets from the outside world into our systems. But before the customer sees the content, it goes through another step: indexing. But talking about indexing without talking about taxonomies and vocabularies is sort of an emu-and-egg problem. (Why … Read more

Thanks to the digital age, we have access to information like never before. Although a single online database may host millions of digital images, users can easily and quickly find the exact piece they need by inputting a simple search term. Well, this process may seem simple to the user, but an incredible amount of work goes into creating the ease of access so many take for granted. This seemingly magical solution is metadata, and it is the key to the world-renown Gale Digital Collections product line produced by Gale, part of Cengage Learning.